Word: parolee
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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The Institute of Criminal Law of the Harvard Law School, an organization devoted primarily to research in the fields of Criminal Law, Procedure, Crime, Causation and Crime Treatment, is embarking on a new project, the first of its kind to be undertaken by any Law School. There is a pressing...
*A sentence of more than a year rnakes a convict eligible for parole after one-third of its execution.
Inmates of the Maine State Prison rioted this month when their letter-writing privileges were curtailed (TIME, April 6). In Manhattan last week. Commissioner Bernard J. Fagan of the New York State Division of Parole told a Welfare Council meeting that "through correspondence, prisoners [at Sing Sing] join matrimonial agencies...
Chief cause of the riot seemed to be resentment against the State Pardon & Parole Board's administration of the indeterminate sentence law, by which the Board, and not judge or jury, ultimately fixes the time a prisoner must serve. Said round-faced, Roman Catholic Chaplain Elegius Weir: "One of...
* Later Beech Hargis shot & killed his father, James Hargis, was imprisoned, paroled. He broke parole, escaped the officers escorting him back to the penitentiary, has never since been heard of.